LOCKER ROOM POLICY
PURPOSE: The following guidelines are designed to maintain personal privacy as well as to reduce the risk of misconduct in locker rooms and changing areas.
FACILITIES: The following is a description of our practice and competition facilities to allow athletes and their families to plan their use: We practice at the Palm Springs Swim Center. This location has a changing area that is shared with US Masters Swim Teams. As such, there are likely to be people who are not associated with Elite Otters Swim Team in the changing area around the time of practice.
General Policy Considerations
Coaches and staff make every effort to recognize when an athlete goes to the locker room or changing area during practice and competition and, if they do not return in a timely fashion, we will check on the athlete’s whereabouts. We discourage parents from entering locker rooms and changing areas unless it is truly necessary. In those instances, we request it only be a same‐sex parents.
Locker Room Monitoring Policy
Elite Otters Swim Team has staggered practices, with different groups arriving and departing throughout the day. It is therefore not practical to constantly monitor locker rooms and changing areas over this extended course of time. While we do not post staff inside or at the doors of the locker rooms and changing areas, we do make occasional sweeps of these areas. Elite Otters Coaches conduct these sweeps, with women checking on female locker rooms, and men checking on male locker rooms.
Use of Cell Phones and Other Recording Devices:
Cell phones and other mobile devices with recording capabilities, including voice recording, still cameras and video cameras increase the risk for different forms of misconduct in locker rooms and changing areas. The USA Swimming Athlete Protection Policies prohibit the use of such devices in the locker room or other changing area:
305.3 Use of audio or visual recording devices, including a cell phone camera, is not allowed in changing areas, rest rooms or locker rooms.
Locker Room Misconduct:
Any athlete choosing to ignore or not follow the above guidelines, depending upon the severity of the misconduct will be reprimanded, reported to USA Swim and could face immediate suspension from the team.
